David Puth

David Puth, "a Senior Advisor to J.H. Whitney Investment Management, has 25 years of investment banking experience in the fixed income, currency, commodities and emerging markets businesses as well as in investment management. Mr. Puth is the founder of the Eriska Group, an investment advisory and risk management consulting firm.

"Prior to founding the Eriska Group in January of 2007, Mr.Puth spent 19 years at J.P. Morgan and was a member of the J.P. Morgan Chase Executive Committee and the J.P. Morgan Investment Bank Management Committee. He was, at that time, responsible for the firm's Emerging Markets, Currency and Commodity divisions.

"Mr. Puth over the course of his career has served on a number of industry related boards including the Federal Reverse Foreign Exchange Committee which he chaired from 1998-2002. He also served as a member of the board of Directors of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange from 1996-1998.

"Mr. Puth is also active in a number of not-for-profit activities and currently serves on the board of the Robin Hood Foundation, a poverty fighting organization in New City, Project Reach Youth in Brooklyn, New York and the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University. He is a graduate of Tufts class of 1979."